Jon Harrop wrote:
>Does anyone have any pointers to information about the origin of the size
>limit for arrays? I assume it is something to do with the garbage collector
>using a fixed-size tag instead of a variable-size one but I'd be interested
>in the details.
>
>
You're correct, see byterun/mlvalues.h for details.
I suspect variable-length tags would probably increase complexity and
decrease performance considerably...and personally I hope we'll all be
migrating to 64-bit architectures soon, anyhow.
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